Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-08

Cox. IW.GoooHER, chaplain, Rev. Francis b
Nash. JE, Fargo.
FTRsT REGIMENT, D. n. G.
The membership and officers of the First
regiment present are:
A of Bismarck, IS men; captain. F J Cole;
B Of Fargo. 25 men: captain. Andrew IL
Burke: hrst lieutenant, Irving IL wilson, sec
O ot Grafton. 30 men captain, Daniel W. Yor-
KEY; first lieutenant, William A Gurin; second,
d Of RsdfieId. "a men: captain. Frederick A..
Dawes; first Lieutenant, G. F. kuteneTsky; sec
ond, John c. Rsisinger.
Z, OF Yankton. twenty-tour men: captain.
Christian Hamiester: first lieutenant. Louis ID.
Sharp: second, Willis T. Burns.
F, of Grand Forks, tweniy-four men; captain,
|. William De Yoy; FIRST lieutenant. John r..
Brandt; second. William II. Ryan.
g, OF Aberdeen, twenty six men: captain,
Samuel IL Jumper; FIRST lieutenant John A
Bradeu; second. Michael Murphy
H., Of Jamestown. twenty-six men; captain,
William IL Ford: first lieutenant, Ernest j.
Schwellcnbaeh: second, Anton Klaus, Jr
/ Of Webster, thirty-two men,: captain,
Eugene Huntington. first lieutenant. William
Root: second lieutenant, Augustus j. Wolfe.
Total, 232 men present
SECOND REGIMENT. D. n. @.
Second regiment, field and staff;
Mark w. Sheafe, WATERFOWL, colonel; JIM.
Adams, Mitchell, lieutenant colonel: Thomas IL
Ruth, De smet, major; p Thomas; Huron
autll1hN AtJAstb1AAEt - T. AsAsAHA - ARA-N
commissary: Mayor @. A. Pettigre~. Flandrau,
surgeon: Capt. r. F. Cushman, De Smet. as
sistant surgeon: Capt ID. V. Collins, Fargo.
chaplain.
Officers and membership Of the various COM
panies are:
A. Churchill: frat lieutenant Edwards Powers;
second, Thomas Kelly.
3. Of Sioux Falls, twenty-five men; captain,
Charles 7. Jefers: first lieutenant, Samuel I.
Clover; second. Richard j. Wood.
G. Of Huron, thirty men; captain. L. W.. Gro
foot; first lieutenant, L. W. Frisbie, JL: second,
d, Of Elk Point, tweuty-four men: captain. A.
ID. Keller: first lieutenant Ferdinand krokshf;
second, William II. Ninson-
e, Of Dc smet, thirty men; captain, c. S. G.
Fuller; first lieutenant, George B. Wilmarth;
second, Charles l. Dawley.
Z, OF Valley CITY. Twenty-Five men; captain,
John d. Black; first lieutenant, Philip Girard:
second, Cary L. Draper.
@. Of Brookings, forty men; captain. Peter c
Murphy; hrst Lieutenant, Vine W. Norton; sec
III Of watertown, thirty five men: captain, Ed
ward l. Hills first lieutenant, B. f. Budd; sec
ond, Harry Van TasSel.
Iof Mitchell, thirty-four men: captain. Harry
s. sevey: nrst lieutenant, s L. Chase; second,
Hugh l. WieT. Total, 276.
Battery A of Lisbon. forty men: captain. w.
K. Smith; FIRST lieutenant, Roswell Thomas;
Tecond. Samuel MulIeu- Total: First regiment.
232; Second, 276: Battery A, 10, making SIS
enlisted men.
To these must be added she Valley City
First Regiment band of men, and
the Canton Second Regiment band OF nine
teen men, and then there are fully six hun
dred attending the encampment
CAM \ us FURNISHINGS.
1t is a beautiful ground they nave on the
school section half a mile north of the North
western depot IL is of the highest ground
around here; has a tight board fence sur.
rounding it; three electrics make il light as
day by night; the artesian water flows di-
rectly to the camp Besides these advau-
tages. it being the county fair grounds, the
anphitheater will hold two thousand who
wish to watch The drilling Floral hall is
used for the officers dining room. and an
other hall with some tarpaulins, gives room
for all the soldiers to sit at table
to partake their meals One man has the
job of cooking all the meals, and his bill of
fare includes two kinds of cooked meats.
potatoes, tea, coffee, milk. bread, butter,
crackers, and two kinds Of pie for dinner
A detail of each company goes to the cool
house for the ratious. which they carry to
their own table and eat All the tents are
large wall tents, 6xI2 and ska feet As
the enlisted men get 70 cents a day
while IN camp, they can afford
TO fix up their tents in a Iuxnri-
Gus style Some of them are furnished
with folding beds. upholstered chairs. eIe-
CANT stands, walnut writing desks. Others
have cots, straw ticks, pine floors, student
lamps, and many other ct ~ceteras, the want
Of which makes life a burden when they are
at home. The governor and all of his staff
have tents upon the grounds, and many of
them mess with the officers A tall flagstaff
floats the brigade flag, while two others
iaunt old glory" for each of the two regi-
ment The ~brave battery bows brought
an iron cannon with them; but there are
three brass field pieces here to be given
them during their stay. The old iron one
makes a laundering racket at sunset and
sunrise.
IT is 20 PLAY SPELL
the soldiers have come to Excepting the
Sd and 18th this is the order of business as
prescribed by Col, Sheafe, the camp COM
mander:
Reyeille at sunrise; $50, roll call; 6 sur
7:45. morning reports, regimsatal: ., brigade
reports; $50 20 Q, company drill: D II.s0.
battalion drill; 2 dinner; 1 r. ., school for off,
GERS; 2:30 to 8, battalion or brigade drill: &
dress parade; $50. supper retreat at sunset;
100, tattoo; 10 taps; 1880 to $50, band con-
There is a good deal of quiet muttering at
such hard work as is thus imposed upon the
militia Some OF the boys even hint that
the colonel commanding aspires to the
vacant brigadler generalship But he need
not have made his men work so hard on
that account The governor has received an
honor that no one expected Adit Gen
Tyner directed that a vote be taken among
the companies for a name of this camp. It
resulted IN its being named Camp Church.
After dress parade tonight the brigade
formed 4 hollow square, and heard
the governor say: Soldiers, | thank
YOU, one of his best speech ga
Col E Townsend of Fort Yates and Capt
John Pitman of Port Lincoln are the regular
army officers sent here to inspect the brig
age. IL so happened that they performed
the same duty at the last encampment in
Aberdeen The only ludicrous thing that
has happened was this Afternoon. Dick
Smith is a member of Company G and
also the local editor of the Timcs
Dick didn't van to go into camp and the
captain wouldn't excuse him. Dick declared
he would leave town on the Eastern train
which threat came to his captains knowl-
edge. The captain was at West Point Two
years, and learned how to deal with such
people; so the first thing Dick saw was a
eorporal's guard, while the order came. sFor-
ward, marchl8 Dick marched through the
main streets OF the city TO the armory.
donned his regimentals and went into camp
under guard The encampment continues
I'LL Tuesday night There are reany yisitors
already here and others are coming daily.